Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.
Great books do not spring from something accidental in the great men who write them. They are the effluence of their very core, the expression of the life itself of the authors. And literature cannot be said to have served its true purpose until it has been translated into the actual life of him who reads. It is the vast resevoir of true ideas and emotions. In a world deprived of literature, the broad, the noble, the generous would tend to disappear and life would be correspondingly degraded, because the wrong idea and the petty emotion would never feel the upward pull of the ideas and emotions of genius. Only be conceiving a society without literature can it be clearly realised that the function of literature is to raise the plain towards the top level of the peaks. Literature exist so that where a man has lived finely, ten thousands may afterwards live finely. It is a means of life, it concerns the living essence.
If a world is deprived of literature, what would happen to the broad, the noble and the generous?

Options

A. They would be living a free without care.
B. They would worry themselves into petty issues.
C. They would tend to dissappear and life would be correspondingly degraded.
D. They would celebrate life.

Answer

C